On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 06:55:01AM -0500, Nelson, Laird wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Rosenblum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > how do you people live without the refactoring tools > > provided by IDEs like Eclipse and IntelliJ? > > We type fast. :-) > > No, but seriously: I'm stupid enough that if I don't do the refactoring > myself, laborious line by line, I lose track of what's happening.
Just to hop in on and persist this off-topic thread, I thought I'd mention that automated refactoring tools are of the greatest help to dumb programmers such as myself. A good IDE or tool that builds a semantic model of your code and can make sure that when you change a method signature or rename something your code gets updated everywhere is an incredible time saver. Before I started using an IDE with real refactoring features, the bottom line is that I rarely bothered to rename things even when it made a lot of sense to do so because the task of going through all of the code to find all usages and then going through the iterative process of building the code, finding the error, building again, ad infinitum was nearly too much to bear. I can't say I was ever anti-IDE because I've done the vast majority of my Java programming with Emacs/JDEE, but the first time I used an IDE with tightly integrated refactoring features, I was hooked. --Rafe -- Rafe Colburn http://rc3.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
